Fossil Shrimp

The detail in this specimen is truly amazing. You can clearly see all the structures, even the shrimp’s eye is visible. The fossil itself is 100 million years old, and is from Lebanon . Shrimps are crustacean, like crabs and lobsters, and as you can see from this fossil, they have not changed in 100 million years.

 

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